Grandma Moses was the illustrator of "It Twas the Night Before Christmas".
Biography
Grandma Moses was born in Greenwich New York in 1860 third of ten children. Grandma Moses became an artist because she got arthritis and couldn't needle point any more, so she wanted to do something that she did as a kid which was painting. She had nine brothers and sisters. She was raised on a farm; she also attended school.
When she was 12, she left home to be a hired hand at a nearby farm. She worked hard as she was growing up. When she was in her twenties she married Thomas Salmon Moses. Five of their kids died when they were babies.
The couple bought a farm in Shenandoah Valley near Staunton, Virginia. In 1905 they moved to Eagle Bridge, New York and purchased another farm. Anna’s husband died in 1927, but she kept on working with the help of her youngest son’s help. She retired to her daughter’s house in 1936, owing to her advancing age. Following to her husband’s death, Grandma Moses created worsted-embroidery pictures, but when arthritis in her seventies made needle-point too difficult, she turned to painting. A shop owner took a look at the paintings and well, then she got famous. She liked to paint New York, her home town. She painted realism not fantasy .
She got awarded the Women's National Press Club Trophy Award. On her 100th birthday, the Governor in New York promoted her birthday as Grandma Moses Day. Anna Robertson was feisty and strong willed and after the death of her husband in 1927, she moved back to New York from Virginia. She would sit out on the porch on her farm and paint. She left her farm and went to go paint somewhere else.
Works
Grandma Moses was the illustrator of "It Twas the Night Before Christmas". Some of her artwork is The old checkered inn in summer, Fourth of July, and Autumn.
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